 | English essays - 1714 - 380 pages
...fortifie my unlearned Reader with another Bit of Wifdom from Jtvvmal by Dryden, Look round the habttable World, how few Know their own Good, or knowing it,...purfue. How Void of Reafon are our Hopes and fears I What in the Centtufi of our Life af pears So welt Jefytt'ti, fo luckily begun, Sut, whm we have our... | |
 | Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pages
...happy. *** T OOK round the Habitable World, how few •*-' Know their own God j or knowing it, pur fuc How void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears! What in the Condud of our Life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our With, we with... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire - 1735 - 512 pages
...have theft, ''tit not much matter what we want bejides; Jtr me tave already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the Habitable World, how few Know their own Good ; or knowing it, purfue. HowvoidofReafonare our Hopes and Fears! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd, fo... | |
 | Rob Steele - 1740 - 368 pages
...Bit of Wifdom from Juvenal by Dryden. Look round the habitable World, hciufrw Know their oiun Cood, or knowing it purfue ? Ho<w -void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So ivell dejign d. fo luckily begun, But, iL'hen we have our Wi/h, lue... | |
 | 1747 - 584 pages
...fortify my unlearned Reader with another Bit of Wifdom from Ju~ venal by Dryden. Look round the hahitahle World, how few Know their own Good, or knowing it,...void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears .' What in the Conduit of our Life appears So welldejign'd, fo luckily hegun, But, when we have our Wijh, we wi/h... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pages
...thefe, it is not much matter what •we want bejides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. X 2 LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...3. 1750. Paud dignofcere po/ypt Vera buna, atque iUis multum cti'uerfa, remota Erroris nebula, JlTV. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purfue? How void of reafon we our hopes and fears ? DRYDEN. r • ^HE folly of human wifhes and purfuits has alJ. ways been a... | |
 | Thomas Amory - Anecdotes - 1766 - 572 pages
...of righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future flate of cxiftence. SECTION SEGTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know...purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears 1 What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our... | |
 | Books - 1766 - 768 pages
...fee Review, yo). xi. p. 501. : Section xiii opens with the following motto, from Dryden's Juvenal : ' Look rou.nd, the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. .How void of realbn are our hopes and fears! What in the conrluftof our life appears So well delign'd, fo luckily... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 398 pages
...thefe, it is not much matter iahat iut want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the condud of our life appears So well defjgn'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we wifh... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
